Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.